HUM II Recruitment

Application to Registration Performance

Below is the comparative performance of recruitment in each of New York’s 2 school district boundaries, showing the number of total applications received and the number of registrations completed from those applications, per year, for the 2017-2018 to the 2019=2020 school years.

Limited English Proficiency Households

One angle for targetting recruitment efforts is examining the distribution of “limited English proficiency” households in New York. The American Community Survey tabulates limited English proficiency households by census tract, which are defined as households that do not solely speak English, in which at least one member is reported by the respondent to speak English “not very well.”

The below interactive map shows the percentage of limited English proficiency households per census tract in NYC, with school district boundaries overlaid. Note that this calculation has taken out of consideration those tracts with extremely low (first percentile and below) total tract populations. While some of those tracts have high proportions of limited English proficiency households, the total number of people living in them is extremely small, and most of them represent land that is largely a park or cemetery.

Bus Shelters in High-LEP Census Tracts

The following 297 bus shelters are located in the tracts in Manhattan and the Bronx with the highest (80th percentile) proportions of limited english proficiency. Again, census tracts with extremely low population (often parks, cemeteries and other such areas) have been removed prior to calculation.

The entire table can be copied and pasted into a spreadsheet and will retain its formatting.  

Bus Routes Along High-LEP Areas

In addition to advertising on the bus stops located within the highest-proportion LEP census tracts in New York, placing advertisements for the school on the bus lines passing near the most LEP households is another strategy. Below are the top 10 routes in Manhattan and the Bronx, by the number of Low English Proficiency households they pass by (total LEP household counts of the census tracts they pass through):

To reach target recruitment systemwide

Though not enough data has been collected over sufficient years to make an authoritative prediction about the number of applications needed to recruit